Driver, remorseful, set on parole in 2005

Vance Lattime, Jr. took full blame for supplying the murder weapon and the getaway car for the murder of Gregory Smart more than 15 years ago.

In May of 1990, Lattime openly contracted with Bill Flynn to go along and help him cold bloodedly kill Pamela Smart's husband, Greg Smart. The motive to kill was masked behind a jealous teenager's love affair.

Lattime, Jr. ("JR") would drive away from the murder scene that night with a conviction of being an accomplice to a second degree murder and a prison sentence of 18-years-to life.

Lattime was 17-years-old at the time of the murder when Flynn asked him to help him with this life altering task. Lattime was able to swipe a gun from his house in Seabrook, N.H. which belonged to his father, then borrowed his grandmothers car so the four boys could get to Derry that night of May 1, 1900.

According to the depositions from Patrick Randall and the State of New Hapmshire given on March 3 and March 12, 1992 Randall, Flynn and Lattime all got a ride over to Big Al's Gun Shop from George Emond who was the bullet supplier for the gun Lattimewould be giving to Flynn and Randall. The boys told Emond's to buy hollow point bullets, a bullet made for killing, not for target practice. When you use hollow point bullets, there is every intention to kill.

Patrick Randall states in his deposition that Lattime's job was to 'wait in the car with Raymond' while him and Flynn went into Pam and Greg's house.

Lattime, Randall, and Flynn were incarcerated at Maine State Prison. According to Flynn's deposition on March 12, 1992 him and JR share a jail cell and Randall is on the same block as them. They see each other everyday and have free access to each other which means that their conversations togheter are not restricked in any way.

According to sources, Lattime's lawyer, Mark Stevens classified him as 'a model prisoner' and on that fact alone, he deserved to be let out early from his prison sentence.

"Vance is not a blamer, he never was," said lawyer Marsha Kazarasion who represented JR at one point in 1992. Like Raymond Fowler, Lattime still blames himself for the decision he made to go with his friends that night on May 1, 1990 he also maintains that 'he didn't think they would go through with it,' which Fowler also states in many of his conversations and depositions.

Editor's Note:

Vance Lattime spoke to The Equinox numerous times, only with assurances that he would not be quoted.

Not much then can be said. What can be reported  is that like Ray Fowler, he enjoyed a strong, family support system during his time both in and out of jail. Paroled last summer, he is back home and working in the family business.

He expresses great remorse for his actions the night of May 1, 1990. And he conveys that learning born of awareness and experience in well-spoken and articulate terms, an indicator that his jail time was spent educating and bettering himself. But he has taken that knowledge to a level of reflection and personal accountability.

Like Fowler, he too wonders about Pam Smart's sentence of life without parole.